We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
AKBAR GANJIThe lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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